Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-12-10
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Appropriations Rer'1ired for the
Next Fiscal Year.
Amount Required for all Purposes of the
Rovctntient Is S3sG, $40. i83-Circu-
tar to P6stihasttts Hessrding
Advertised LetteEs:

APPROPRIATIONS WANTED.
WAsHiYGfoS, Dec 6-The Secretary Of
the Treasury yesterday Transmitted 70 Con-
gress the estimates Of appropriations re-
quired for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1850 The total amount estimated as re-
Guited for ~, purposes of the government
is s326, $50, 193, which is Il 1874 es9 more than
the sum called for in the estimates submit
ted last year; and SIG S99 4)6 more than the
aggregate Of appropriations Tor the present
fiscal year. The estimates for 1889 ere made
up OF the following itens Legislative,
s1,272, III; executives, SIS, ,S52, 7S5; JUDICIAL
sA?2200; foreign intercourse, Sl,94So65;
military, s25 Ga3, ,b74; naval, s2l34S OBJ; In
dian affairs, s. 54sS 691 pensions, 63G, 400;
public works, S30,0S1 ,9S4; postal service
ST. 494, 400; miscellaneous, s26, 067 SO6; per-
manent annual appropriations, sll5,6i), 79S
There is al increase over last year in the
estimates for the executive, Judicial, for
eign intercourse, naval establishment, peh' |
sions, public works ard miscellaneous, and |
a decrease in the estimates for the legisla-
titbt UnlIlldiN tS JbNidi o. |
postal service and in the permanent annual |
| appropriations.
The superintendent of the dead letter |
Office, Postofiice Department, has prepared |
| circular letter which will be sent 10 all |
posmasters directing the strict inforcc- |
ment of section 800 of the postal lava and
regulations This section makes it mpera' |
| tive upon postmasters to advertise in a
newspaper manuscript list OF hOn-deliv- |
| cred letters 1t also requires the charge
| and collection of ono cent In all cases where
| a letter has been published, whether the
| list has been published in newspaper
| either gratuitOusy or at one cent for each
| letter or less sum, or whether the pubica-
| tiUn was merely by q written list posted IN
| some public place. In all cases the post
master must atiix and cancel a one.cent
| postage due stamp as evidence of its deiv-
| cry In postUfices, other than those Of lie
| free delivery class the postage due stamp
| shall not be affixed until the delivery Of the
| letter. This clause of the postal laws has
| not heretofore been been strictly inforced
| Ii is estimated that the postal revenues
| will be increased largely b. tbs strict in
| forcemont of this law.
| A decision was rendered by the United
States Supreme Court yesterday afternoon
| in the Virginia habeas corpus cases of At.
torney General Ayres and Commonwealth's
| Attorneys Scott and McCabe, who were
| imprisoned by order OF Judge Bond, OF the
| United States Circuit Court, for disobedi-
ence to restraining order forbidding
| them to bring suits for the collection OF
| taxes in cases where tenders have been
| been made by taX-receivable coupons cut
from State bonds. This court, in a very
| long aud elaborate opinion by JUS
| tice Matthews, holds that the suit
in which Judge Bond issued the
| restraining order in the Circuit Court,
| although nominally suit against indiVidU-
ais, is in realty a suit against the State of
| Virginia and as such forbidden by the
| Eleventh amendment to the Federal const-
tuition that the United States Circuit Court
had, therefore, no authority to entertain
such suit that in so dong and in issuing
restraining order to prevent the officers Of
the State from discharging their duties
under the laws OF the State, Judge Bond
was acting without constitutional warrant,
and that the res raining order and all sub
sequcnt proceedings under 1t, including
the arrest and imprisonment Of the petit
toners were illogaland without authority.
The cour', therefore, directs that the petit
TONERS, Attorney General Ayers and Com
monwealth's Attorney Scott and McCabe
| be at once discharged.
The opinion, which is that of the whole
court without dissenting voice, sGsi aims
the State of Virginia at all points, and yr-
tually declares that q State, as political
| IN " n sua1 n aapVplt N
the Federal courts, either by an action
brought against her by name or by an ac-
tion brought against her officers in their
official capacity The court declares that
the eleventh amendment establishes dis
tlncton between contracts made Uy indi-
vidGa,s with each other and contracts made
by individuals with State. The latter
class cannot be enforced by the remedies
used to enforce the former--that is, by
suits in the United States cOur 5, and they
are, therefore, without sanction except in
so far as such sanction is given 10 them by
the honor and good faith of the contract
ing State. Such State may consent to be
! sued IN It's own courts or in the Federal
courts for breach OF contract, but it may at
any time wi hdraw such consent, and re-
sumo its sovereignty, and il cannot then be
jgdcially coerced at the request of an in
| diy!dual
A number Of representatives of the wool
growers and wool merchants of the country
are now in the city, and last evening a
meeting was held for the purpose 1t taking
action upon the needs OF that industry for
tariff legislation by Congress, There are
three separate interests involved, those of
the wool growers, the wool dealers and TIE
wool manufacturers. Mr.. William NJ. Cow
den, the secretary of the Ohio Wool Grow
, ers' Association, thus outlined the objects
of this conference: I'VE want he said,
"a tariff high enough to enable us 10 live.
We want this industry, so far as profits are
concerned, placed on level with other
agricultural industries. The tariff is now
too low, especially under the present lul-
ings Of the Treasury Department, which
let's in too much foreign wool. We do not
propose to dictate TO Congress what the
rate shall be, but we do propose to make
such a representation of the condition OF
the industry as to enable Congress TO form
a Judgment as to what would be fmr and
equitable"